10 fascinating facts about Watergate 42 years later. On a June 17, 1972, police caught five men breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.
So how did a “third-rate burglary” escalate into a near constitutional crisis? In a two-year period after that fateful June event, growing press coverage of the developing scandal caught the nation’s attention, as President Richard Nixon’s administration clashed with Congress over the details of an extensive cover-up related to the break-in. In late July 1974, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in United States v. Nixon, that the president had to surrender tapes made within the White House to a special prosecutor. On August 9, 1974, President Nixon resigned his office, rather than face an impending impeachment proceeding in the House. Here are a few of the most-interesting facts about the Watergate scandal as it developed. 1. The World Today, Foretold by Nixon. All The President's Men Revisited. Presidential Recordings of Lyndon B. Johnson Digital Edition.
David Coleman Associate Professor and Chair of the Presidential Recordings Program, Miller Center of Public Affairs Marc Selverstone Assistant Director for Presidential Studies and Associate Professor with the Presidential Recordings Program, Miller Center of Public Affairs PDF versions of this essay: US Letter (8 in. x 11 in.) · A4 · Optimized for e-readers “I guess we’ve got no choice, but it scares the death out of me.
—President Lyndon B. On 8 March 1965, two battalions of U.S. The onset of that American war in Vietnam, which was at its most violent between 1965 and 1973, is the subject of these annotated transcripts, made from the recordings President Lyndon B. Vietnam War Timeline. A Vietnam War Timeline [Note: This timeline is an abbreviated version of the more detailed timeline posted on the Public Broadcasting System's "Vietnam Online" section of The American Experience.]
Ho Chi Minh Creates Provisional Government: Following the surrender of Japan to Allied forces, Ho Chi Minh and his People's Congress create the National Liberation Committee of Vietnam to form a provisional government. Japan transfers all power to Ho's Vietminh. Vietnam in Popular Culture. A Vietnam Photo Essay. A young Viet Cong suspect cries after hearing a rifle shot.
His captors, Chinese Nung tribesmen in the service of the U.S. Special Forces, pretended to shoot his father, a ruse designed to make the boy reveal information about Communist guerrillas. Photo Credit: Sean Flynn, 1966. (UPI). Online Source: Report from Vietnam (1968) Napalm Girl Phan Thị Kim Phúc. LBJ Orders Pants. David Halberstam's The Fifties: "Selling The American Way" Operation PBSUCCESS - The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'État. 1/2. The Secret CIA History of the Iran Coup, 1953. Washington, D.C., November 29, 2000 – The CIA history of operation TPAJAX excerpted below was first disclosed by James Risen of The New York Times in its editions of April 16 and June 18, 2000, and posted in this form on its website at:
Www.fed.cuhk.edu.hk/history/history2001/berlinandcoldwar.pdf. #2 Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan. Winston Churchill at Fulton. All the President's Men (1/9) Movie CLIP - Watergate Burglary (1976) HD. All The President's Men - Your Lives Are In Danger. Deep Throat (film) Deep Throat is a 1972 American pornographic film written and directed by Gerard Damiano, who was listed in the credits as "Jerry Gerard"; produced by Louis Peraino, who was credited as "Lou Perry"; and starring Linda Lovelace, the pseudonym given to Linda Susan Boreman.
One of the first pornographic films to feature a plot, character development and relatively high production standards, Deep Throat earned mainstream attention and launched the "porno chic" trend despite the film being banned in some regions and the subject of obscenity trials. The 61-minute-long film is intended to be a comedy, with highly tongue-in-cheek dialogue and songs; fireworks going off and bells ringing during Lovelace's orgasms.
Critic Roger Ebert reviewed Deep Throat in an early 1973 column, giving it a no-stars rating and writing, "It is all very well and good for Linda Lovelace, the star of the movie, to advocate sexual freedom; but the energy she brings to her role is less awesome than discouraging. Un-American Activities Committee. The Atomic Cafe. Cold War Documentary in HQ- Episode 1: Comrades (1917-1945) McCarthyism: Index Page. Origins of the Cold War 1945-49. FOUR causes of the Cold War [BARE].
NINE events which caused the Cold War. FOUR decisions made at the Yalta Conference. TWO decisions and three disagreements at the Potsdam conference. The ‘salami tactics’ that brought Communists to power in Eastern Europe FIVE causes [CABAN] and FOUR results [CENA] of the Berlin crisis, 1948–9. FIVE ‘Berlin Airlift Facts’. Worksheets - The Cold War.